Education secretary Bridget Phillipson (Photo Lauren Hurley / No 10 Downing Street)What will be the impact of the DfE's plans to tackle profiteering in children's care? The government has pledged to “crack down on care providers making excessive profit” from care placements, in children’s social care reforms unveiled today. But the government also warned that, should these not work as anticipated, it would cap providers’ profit levels from children’s social care placements. Regulating children’s home groupsThe DfE also pledged to give Ofsted the power to investigate multiple children’s homes run by the same company. The DfE said that, despite some companies ran over 100 children’s homes, Ofsted could not hold them to account for organisational failings that affected children’s care.
